Able (United States)

When

30 Jun 1946

Kind

Nuclear test

Yield (kt)

21

Where

Bikini

Coordinates

11.35° N, 165.20° E

Yield kt

21

Type

airdrop

Purpose

British test, effects of nuclear weapons

Reported by

DOE

1946 nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll

Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships.

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